To reach the Temple of Heaven, you don't have to have an untimely passing. Just get off the subway at Tiantan Dongmen. As you'd expect, this green space is a peaceful asylum, immune to the urban ...

The Temple of Heaven, situated in southeastern Beijing, is the largest extant sacrificial temple in China. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was the site of imperial sacrifices to Heaven.

Foreign visitors pose for a photo in front of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing on Feb 4, 2025. [Photo by Chen Qiang/For China Daily] ...

China saw a remarkable surge in inbound tourism during this year's Spring Festival holiday, as the nation celebrated its ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

People are making the best of the freezing weather in northeast China: Sculptors have finely ... and Beijing’s own Temple of Heaven, all carved from clear blocks of ice.

With the upcoming Lantern Festival, which falls on Wednesday in 2025, cities across China are pulling out all the stops to celebrate it with a variety of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) festivities ...

As China celebrated the Lunar New Year, shoppers and travelers said they were feeling constrained by a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy.

Foreign tourists cheer during a visit to the Temple of Heaven in Beijing on Nov 3. In the first 11 months, China received 17.45 million visa-free entries made by foreign visitors, accounting for ...

A tourist group listens to a tour guide introduce the Temple of Heaven in Beijing on Jan. 16, 2025. [Photo by Yang Chuanli/China.org.cn] To enhance the visitor experience for international ...